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- Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
12: | '''Term of office:'''
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
42: ...65]]) [[President of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican ...
46: ...f the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt t...
53: ...ky. In [[1830]], after economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on governme... - Botswana (22276 bytes)
20: | [[English language|English]] (official), [[Setswana]]
60: ...utoland]] (now [[Lesotho]]), and [[Swaziland]] in 1909 asked for and received British assurances that th...
62: ...89 and 1994. Masire [[retirement|retired]] from office in 1998. The presidency passed to the sitting v...
67: ...of the country's political system has been a significant factor in Botswana's stability and [[economic...
73: ... democracy lie in [[Setswana]] traditions, exemplified by the [[Kgotla]], or village council, in which... - Flag of Maine (1460 bytes)
2: ...''' features the state [[coat of arms]] on a blue field. In the center of the shield a moose rests und...
4: ...[[flag of the United States]]. According to the official discription, the flag should have a fringe of...
6: ...ature approved a new flag on [[February 23rd]], [[1909]].
8: ... the current flag and the older one, with a white field and green pine tree. The green pine tree has t... - Nevada (17565 bytes)
8: ...name = Silver State, Battle Born State (official) |
13: OfficialLang = None |
25: ...ntain City, Owyhee, and West Wendover) are in Pacific</small> |
37: ...rom the [[United States 2000 Census|2000 census]] figure of 1,998,257. Nevada is the fastest growing ...
39: ... the state flag; "The Battle Born State" is the official state slogan, as Nevada was admitted into the... - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - List of people by name: U (6532 bytes)
18: *[[Ernst Udet|Udet, Ernst]], German WWI fighter ace
30: ...islaw Marcin Ulam|Ulam, Stanislaw Marcin]], (USA, 1909-1984), [[Poland|Pole]]
56: ...rg, Mattias Alexander von]], [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[field marshal]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
44: ..., Andrea Pia]], former mother and murderer of her five children
73: ...ser|Yenser, Stephen]], Whitman winner–''The Fire In All Things''
86: ...achun]], ([[1315]] - [[1360]]),[[Yuan Dynasty]] officer
89: *[[Zhang Yimou|Yimou, Zhang]], (born [[1950]]), film director
91: ...rvo Ylpp?pp?rvo]], ([[1887]]-[[1992]]), [[Finland|Finnish]] [[pediatrician]] - List of painters (54090 bytes)
80: *[[Francis Bacon (painter)]] ([[1909]]-[[1992]])
120: *[[Jasmine Becket-Griffith]]
218: *[[Charles Ephraim Burchfield]] ([[1893]]-[[1967]])
304: *[[Cydney]] ([[1909]]-[?])
327: *[[Ettore DeGrazia|Ettore "Ted" DeGrazia]] ([[1909]]-[[1982]]) - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
73: ..., (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — roll film
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
137: ...ited States|USA]] — [[Polaroid]] polarizing filters and the [[Land Camera]]
139: *[[Irving Langmuir]], (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding
156: *[[Montgolfier]] brothers, (1740-1810) and (1745-1799), [[Fran... - World War I (62979 bytes)
2: ...m the sky was executed, and some of the century's first large-scale [[genocide|civilian massacres]] to...
6: ...orld Order (political)|world order]], marking the final demise of [[political absolutism|absolutist]] ...
8: ...me scholars, who regard World War I as merely the first phase of a three-decade long war spanning the ...
10: ...Western Front]]. Over 9 million died on the battlefield, and nearly that many more on the home front d...
19: ...s ever been reached as for the exact cause of the First World War. - Timeline of United States history (1900-1929) (8003 bytes)
16: *[[1902]] - First [[Rose Bowl (game)|Rose Bowl]] game played
20: *[[1903]] - First [[World Series]]
42: *[[1909]] - [[Penny (U.S. coin)|The U.S. penny]] is chang...
43: *[[1909]] - [[William Howard Taft]] becomes President
44: *[[1909]] - [[Robert Peary]] plants [[American flag]] at ... - History of the United States (1945-1964) (29139 bytes)
8: ... War]] in [[1917]], leaving the Western Allies to fight the [[Central Powers]] alone. Lasting Soviet m...
11: ...nt [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] (center), and Soviet First Secretary [[Joseph Stalin]] (right)]]
13: ...in" of the Cold War. In hindsight, [[Yalta]] signified the agreement of both sides that they could sta...
15: ...nism]]; those contrasts had been simplified and refined in national ideologies to represent two ways o...
17: ... throughout Eurasia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, with almost no country left unscathed. T... - Zoology (5641 bytes)
22: ...[physiology]] of animals is studied under various fields including [[anatomy]] and [[embryology]]
24: ...is covered under [[behavioral ecology]] and other fields
28: ...], [[ornithology]] study mechanisms that are specific to those groups.
31: == Systems of classification ==
33: ''Main article:'' [[Scientific classification]] - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...uary 1 was to be either [[New Year's Day]] or the first day of its numbered year. Although England beg...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], pr...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered b...
22: ...ein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published. - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
3: ...e tall buildings, but it tends to be applied specifically to residential buildings.
9: ...]]-[[1885]] and was destroyed in [[1931]] for the Field's building. Another contender for the title i...
15: ...rld's tallest..." depends greatly on matters of definition.
19: ...nclude free-standing buildings that are not classified as high rises, such as the [[CN Tower]], [[TV m...
40: |6||[[Two International Finance Centre]]||[[Hong Kong]]||415 m||1,362&n... - Pope Pontian (1443 bytes)
3: ...us I|Callistus]]. His epitaph was rediscovered in 1909 in the crypt of St. Cecilia, Rome, near the papal... - Bird ringing (5302 bytes)
1: ...e bird's life can be studied by the ability to re-find the same individual later. This can include [[b...
6: ...ringed at the [[nest]], or after being trapped in fine [[mist net]]s, [[Heligoland trap]]s, [[duck dec...
8: ...the birds. The individual birds can then be identified when they are re-trapped, or found dead.
10: The finder can contact the address on the ring, give the...
14: ...nised schemes for bird ringing were started (in [[1909]]) by [[Arthur Landsborough Thomson]] in Aberdeen... - National League (4871 bytes)
7: ...] team (the team with the best record among those finishing in second place) to enable four teams to a...
47: *[[Harry Pulliam|Harry C. Pulliam]] [[1903]]-[[1909]]
48: *[[John Heydler|John A. Heydler]] [[1909]]-[[1909]]
59: Office eliminated in 1999 - World Series (40101 bytes)
3: ... won the series four games to none, earning their first World Series Championship in 31,458 days, the ...
5: ...l All-Star Game|All-Star Game]] is given the home field advantage in the World Series.
7: ...dings, received such shares; today only the teams finishing in second place in their division but not ...
9: ...to believe that the World Series winner is a significantly better team than any club team outside [[Ma...
13: ...nificant minority are from [[Puerto Rico]], which fields its own teams in international sports competi... - Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
8: :'''Uniform colors:''' 1901-04, 1909-49, 1951-53, 1961: Blue and White; 1905-08, 1954-...
18: ...Shibe had a ?white elephant on his hands," Mack defiantly adopted the [[white elephant]] as the team m...
20: ...eague, persuading them to ?jump? to the A.L. in defiance of their N.L. contracts. The Athletics as we...
22: ... in 1914. The team was known for its ?$100,000 Infield,? consisting of John "Stuffy" McInnis (1b), [[...
26: ...t place every year after that until 1922, when it finished 7th.
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